The National Co-operator and Texas Farm Journal. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 11, 1909 Page: 1 of 12
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SOUTHERN A GRICULTURE.
Volume 31.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, AUGUST 11, 1909.
Number 40
exas State Union Meets at Galveston
One of the greatest conventions
in the history of the Farmers' union
came to an end in Galveston last
Friday. The Co-Operator this week
publishes a partial synopsis of what
was done, but in later issues it will
give more fully reports of executive
officers, resolutions, etc. All of the
delegates have now returned to their
Loudermilk New
State Business Agent—J. A. Kin-
ard of Howard county.
Executive Committee-J. L Mc-
Conkey, chairman, Wichita county;
M. C. Fields, Falls county, secretary;
Vy (
J. A. Wheeler, Bell county, rom B.
Taylor, Coleman county; F. I. Towns-
end, Scurry county.
Delegates to the National Meet-
ing—D. J. Neill, Charles Smith, Joe
E. Edmonson, J. E. Montgomery and
O. F. Dornblaser.
The convention, by a unanimous
vote, instructed the delegates to sup-
port Brother Charles Smith, theere-
tiring state secretary-treasurer, for
national secretary.
The seventh annual meting of the
State Farmers' union was called by the
Photograph of Delegates to Arkansas State Union
Photograph of the Arkansas State Convention of the Farmers’ Union in Front of the Old State House at Little Rock. National President Bar-
rett and Governor Donaghey of Arkansas Are Seated Beside Each Other in the Front Row. Me *
homes, pronouncing the Galveston
meeting the best they ever attended.
While much was said before the
election of officers for the Texas state
union the coming year, nothing defi-
nite was known as to who would fill
the various positions until the elec-
tion of the following brethren was
given out. Of these only three were
not barred by constitutional limitation,
all others being new material or those
who had held but one term in any
gives office:
President—W. T. Loudermilk of Co-
manche county.
Vice President—Peter Radford of
Parker county.
Secretary-Treasurer — Miss Nellie
Horton of Tarrant county.
State Lecturer—Joe E. Edmondson
of Anderson courty. re-elected.
Corrections in Report
NOTICE.
To the Delegates of the Seventh An-
nual Convention of the Farmers’
Union of Texas, Held at Galveston,
August 3 to 7, 1909:
Owing to the fact that my finan-
cial report had to be printed in a great
hurry in order to be ready for the
delegates before adjournment of the
convention, there were a few typo-
graphical errors made by the printer
to which 1 call your attention so that
you may correct them before submit-
ting it to your county unions. How-
ever, this report will be printed again
in the minutes of the convention in
which the typographical errors re-
ferred to will be corrected.
The typographical errors in the
printed report occur an the following
pages, to-wit:
Page 3, total of receipts for Au-
gust, 1908, should read $1,210.26, in-
stead of $13,210.26.
Page 6, September disbursements,
should read: Lecturer department,
$25.00, instead of $20.50.
Page 23, under expenses and sundry
department, the following appears
twice when it should only appear once.
July 3, Eli A. Hirschfield Co., labels
and fobs, check $4.00.
Page 25. The total of amounts due
the union should be $713.24, instead
of $711.24.
‘Continued on nage 2)
executive committee of the organiza-
tion for Galveston this year, for sev-
eral reasons, but probably the chief
was that by coming to Galveston the
delegates who were sent by the locals
to represent the union could in that
city have an opportunity to fully in-
vestigate for themselves the advan-
tages offered by the great Texas port
for handling and marketing cotton,
the staple crop that means so much
to the farmers themselves and also
to the people of the whole South
Galveston said that hers was the
best place to market cotton in the
state, and as for handling it her fa-
cilities were greater by far than any
port in the United States and that
she led the cotton ma 7, of the
world in prices and in s. V ra and
handling charges. The unio-h for
some time been using Galveseao A
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Grant, A. W. The National Co-operator and Texas Farm Journal. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 11, 1909, newspaper, August 11, 1909; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636894/m1/1/?q=denton+history: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .